Moda Bake Shop Basics: Binding

Welcome to our first series of Moda Bake Shop Basics! Oda May has rounded up a set of tutorials from our Chefs that will teach basic sewing and quilting skills. Today’s post from Vanessa Goertzen of Lella Boutique is all about binding.

This tutorial will teach you how to make straight binding (not cut on the bias).

To get started, calculate how many inches of binding you will need. Measure the sides of your squared quilt, adding each side up for the total length. There are quilting calculators that will do this simple math for you, but I’ve included the basic formulas below. My latest Bake Shop recipe – Jumping Jacks Quilt – measured almost 60″ square so I’ll use that as an example:(Quilt Length x 2) + (Quilt Width x 2) = Total Binding Inches(60 x 2) + (60 x 2) = 240 inches of binding

Total Binding Inches/Usable Width of Fabric = Number of Strips to Cut
240/42 = 5.71 strips (round up to 6)

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